then he was taken to a police station house in brooklyn where officers violently raped him with a broken-off broom handle. he needed three rounds of surgery and two months of hospitalization to recover from his injuries. he was so grievously injured that the police did realize they had to take him to a nearby hospital. but they lied to the hospital about how it was that he became so hurt. a nurse who was involved in his care at the hospital was so horrified by the extent and the nature of his injuries, and the police clearly lying about how he got those injuries, that she called the internal affairs bureau at the nypd to report what had happened. the internal affairs bureau at the nypd, the internal affairs bureau officer who took that call, didn't even write down that the call had come in. the case only broke open because somebody anonymously tipped off that journalist, mike mcalary, and he learned the story from abner louima himself in his hospital bed.